Hampton Roads edition
- Norfolk council embraces compromise on wards. Funniest line in this story is that Vice Mayor Burfoot considers the plan introduced by Rodney Jordan to have been done so too late in the “game” yet the compromise plan they are supporting hasn’t been introduced at all.
- Exhibit #9,999,998 on constitutional offices. I like Tina Sinnen. But I still think that clerks of court should be appointed rather than being elected, if for no other reason than to avoid the kind of spending that is discussed in the article. Plus, it’s kind of hard to say this is election-year politics when Sinnen is a Republican and the audit came from a Republican administration.
- Exhibit #9,999,999 on constitutional offices. Another clerk I like – Faye Mitchell – had an employee that stole money over almost two years.
- One less Republican in the 6th Senate race. John Amiral, who told me the last time I saw him that he was in the race to win, has dropped out. The convention to
nominate the Republican candidate is July 9. I actually got an email today, asking me to be a delegate to it. I think I’ll pass, though, since the rules (pdf) say I have to agree to support all Republican nominees.
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